I don't post a lot of political stuff on my Facebook page, which might surprise some of you. Part of the reason is the vitriol that is hurled my way when I do. Liberals are very good at telling us to be open minded and tolerant but they certainly cannot practice what they preach. The other reason is posting political topics also reveals just how ignorant so many people are about our world. In an age where more information is more readily available to us, I'm flabbergasted at how uninformed many people are.

A perfect example is a comment I posted about this lawsuit against President Trump. 196 Democrats are suing him saying he violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution. That lawsuit it complete and total bull crap. President Trump's business interests predated his election to office. He is not active in running those businesses and he's not done anything, as far as promulgating rules that would give his businesses an advantage over other similar but competing businesses.

I went on to point out that the last two Democrat presidents left office with a higher net worth than when they entered office, making sure to clarify that their increases in net worth did not include the book deals or speaking contracts they signed upon leaving office. I also said I was more concerned about Senators and Representatives that did the same thing.

Oh my, the responses were typical, hatred and vitriol spewed my way without addressing any of my points; calling me a hater, deplorable, etc., but not in such nice words. But a couple of my friends went on long tirades about how both Clinton and Obama, along with both Bushes completely divested themselves of all business interests when they took office. Um, no, they did not. They may have put those interests into a blind trust or at least claimed to have no contact with the people running their investment portfolios but they did not divest of their business interests.

One of those people also claimed that it is a law that elected officials divest themselves of all business interests. And this person is a teacher to boot. No wonder we are not educating our little snow flakes very well.

Another friend pointed out the donations made to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State and a U.S. Senator. My liberal friends claimed that was made up and never happened; one went as far as to say the Clinton Foundation was not created until she left office. You know what? Ignorance should hurt, a lot.

We know that you generally can't have a civil conversation about politics with a liberal and that you most definitely can't get most of them to even consider your point of view. But there is no excuse for ignorance is our society. Saying that the media presents biased information is not enough; we know they do. But the source information is out there; transcripts from Congressional testimony for example.

Being accurately informed does take some work, but with the consequences being so important, our freedom, liberty, livelihoods, isn't it incumbent upon each of us to be skeptical and to put forth that effort? Isn't it incumbent upon each of us to be accurately informed?